Respectful solutions to your parenting challenges
Some days are really intense, even for a conscious parent! What did my intense, overwhelming day look like today? What was different about it than the intense days before I found Consciously Parenting?
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Tonight I had the honor of hosting a Healing Story Circle for some of the wonderful moms in my life. One of the things that came up that really stood out to me was how deeply these moms wanted to have this parenting thing all figured out for their kids. I hear that, and I honor that. There’s no harder
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I’m a perfectionist. I really struggle with the idea of pretty good being good enough- in parenting, in work, even in hobbies. I’m working through some of that, and today I made some connections about how sometimes, showing up imperfectly is actually really important! And sometimes, just showing up is the most courageous act. (Today, my toddler decided to show
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Do things that normally seem like no big deal seem really super hard right now? You’re not imagining it, and it’s not just you. Parenting, heck, EXISTING, during a global crisis makes everything harder. Even getting out of bed and putting on pants. Especially getting out of bed and putting on pants. This is the website I mentioned to find
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I just got off the live call with Rebecca, and something she said about having space for our own experiences in order to have the space to support our kids really struck me, so I finally did something I’ve been meaning to get around to for awhile now – I recorded a vlog about how important that space and support
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I used to make long lists of New Year’s resolutions: Everything broken that I would fix about myself. Everything wrong that I would perfect. Everything not good enough that I would make better. A long list of new little failures as life, reality, time, and me being who I am caused one resolution after another to be broken. Then I
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